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What is Rapid E-learning?

Regardless of industry or company, one thing is consistent across all businesses: time is valuable, and finding efficient solutions in all areas of your work is essential. Performing tasks at faster rates without diminishing the quality of your work frees up time for new projects. This in turn provides a major advantage in today’s hyper-competitive global economy. Pressures created by ever shrinking product cycles, MVPs, lean/agile development, and other business- and product-team approaches to shorten time to market have made rapid e-learning a necessity for training in today’s business world.

What is rapid e-learning?

The term “rapid e-learning” can describe the amount of time spent on developing courses, or how quickly courses can be completed. In the past, it wasn’t uncommon for authors to spend several months designing and developing e-learning content. Rapid e-learning reduces that amount of time to just weeks, or even days. For those interacting with course content, rapid e-learning makes it easier for learners to absorb information quickly and move on to the next segment.

What are the benefits of rapid e-learning?

While speeding up the process could suggest to some that the quality must diminish, the truth is that both learners and instructors benefit from rapid e-learning. With rapid e-learning technologies and techniques, instructors can reduce the amount of time it takes to create each course by taking advantage of templates, easy-to-use software, and existing third-party content. This allows management to get crucial information to each team quickly. In addition to fast-paced product release cycles and internet-speed marketing campaigns, industry standards are frequently changing and require constant updating. In order to keep up, companies need to be able to provide “just-in-time” training, and present new information to employees while it is still relevant. Rapid e-learning allows businesses to do just that.

Rapid e-learning is also beneficial to learners. Content that is packaged into smaller, bite-sized pieces allows for employees to complete a few units of training at different times. This means users don’t have to worry about carving out a couple hours in their schedule to work on their course. Instead, they can easily jump around and work on sections that are relevant at that moment, and resume the rest at a more convenient time, or refer back to a class for a quick refresher. Images, quizzes, and videos engage learners while allowing them to absorb information quickly.

How do organizations take advantage of rapid e-learning?

Developing rapid e-learning course content requires the right learning management system (LMS) to properly deliver information. A simple and easy-to-use LMS, like Bridge, allows staff to access all of their training content in one place, and makes it simple to enroll learners in the right courses, track progress, and interact with content and complete tests. Quick and easy course authoring tools are an important part of rapid e-learning, as is the ability to assess learning outcomes. An LMS that streamlines this process can be beneficial for companies in any industry.

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